Visited on 6/10/2018 on our way back from Springfield, Oregon to visit family and to attend Jeff’s niece, Hannah’s High School graduation ceremony. We stopped on the way back to check out this beautiful peaceful lake and decided to camp overnight and take a great hike around the lake with our dogs. At an elevation of 6,000 feet above sea level, Blue Lake is a beautiful 160 acre montane lake, surrounded by coniferous forest within Modoc National Forest, in extreme northeastern Lassen County. The lake located 28 miles southeast of Alturas and is surrounded by Ponderosa Pine, White Fir and meadows. We camped in Space D with a wonderful view of the lake in the Blue Lake campground which is maintained by the Forest Service. The lake is reached primarily from Likely, Modoc Co., via an easy half-hour drive on paved Jess Valley Road, which follows the south fork of the Pit River upstream for a distance. There is a 26-mile dirt road east and then north from Madeline, Lassen Co., that also goes here, but it is slow, rutted, and rough.
The hike around the
lake on a wonderful partially paved trail was very scenic and we saw lots of
ducks, geese and wild flowers along the meadow to the northern end of the lake
from the campground and all the way around this nice lake.
A forest fire in 2003 burned much of the hillside on the east side of the lake, but does not appear to have affected the bird habitat or the other abundance and diversity of wildlife in the area.
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